Ahhhh but the FCC doesn't just say who and what and when and were can use the radio tubes...
they decide what also gets transmitted through them...
So....
Honestly I think its a good idea to allow people to have protected frequencies that aren't usable by others. But they should be able to transmit whatever the fucking hell they want over those god damned frequencies they are allowed to use through whatever selection process it is we come up with as a COUNTRY and the Fucking Communications Cocks don't give a damn about free speech
If it were not for P2P I would have never bought a single CD or album ever...
Why?
I don't go to concerts. I don't listen to crappy radio. I don't get to know the bands through the radio like I do listening to them off of p2p or shoutcast. I do not go to crappy clubs that play crappy syndicated music.
So that few thousand dollars I spent at all would have never been spent except for the internet allowing me to find obscure bands I would like to support.
I'm sure theres at least 1/2 billion to 1 billion more customers with similar preferences to me on this overcrowded ball of dirt.
What would happen if you lost the revenue of a few thousand dollars a year from half a billion people? You would loose a TON of money.
Its not about money its about control. Its about a few big record labels and media companies that do not want to have to start competing. And its obviously not about the bottom line or those record companies would compete even over the customers like me.
Anyway - ever since the Corporate Christian American Nazi Militant Anti-Terror ban on information trade I have stopped buying multimedia all together.
Tell her that. Just bring a print out of these forums for her. Or send her the link and then discuss the topic after you both read the input and see what you agree and don't agree on.
i would like to point out that its not GAMES but shows up under games
More then likely this is some form of test against the slashdot community.
Testing what is what geeks will accept amoung the well established elite ranks of slashdotters.
It might be a test by the Corporate slashdot to see if its readers would like an entertainment section much like cnn.coms entertainment section.
See - > http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/ were u go if u click the big link that says entertaiment on cnn's website
Perhaps one of the major networks is purchasing slashdot.org and want to integrate Paris Hilton like idolatry into geekdom.
Anyway the movie was only minerly entertaining, if it was Steve Ballmer instead of a young myspace kid... it would have been even better...
The fact that its a recent trend on slashdot to call people you disagree with, noobz and myspace kids is why it got posted, to poke the old geeks with sticks so t speak.
Because we are all insensative-clods and you all just got a little bit more sentimental about your old website hangout... aaaawwwww.
Perhaps the best way to fight the government, would in fact be to dig up as much dirty info and collect as much of their internet traffic and correspondence as you can and post it publicly on a server located in the Andes somewhere? Like list their banks, accounts, and balances and email them to Nigeria?
Give them a taste of their own medicine?
See how thy feel like being monitored 24/7...
I mean their politicians and squeaky clean...
They have nothing to hide...
They never went to detention for taking Billy's money on the playground... right? They don't have gay liberal kids do they?
Exactly how legal would it be to data mine our elected officials?
Those who do not want to be monitored will sidestep with technology, always staying a year or two ahead of the government.
Those who do not care will allow themselves to be monitored.
The government will probably then make it ILLEGAL to use your own technology and force you to use "government mandated protocols" and then encroach your right to use encryption, or require "good citizens" to register and license encryption keys from the government.
The other alternative would be for the government to infiltrate and sabotages projects that create alternative communications protocols, however this is pretty hard.
I see in the near future, a required license and government certified software to use the "internet". Microsoft would love this, they already support this method in China.
I just spent a few hours trying to get wifi to work.
It worked fine under xubuntu gutsy...
Its borked in Hardy...
ndiswrapper "seems" to load the driver...
it see's the device...
the wifi config utilities see it...
It connected once, I installed the resticted nvidia drivers, and it never connected again... even after removing and reinstalling the driver
usin a 2wire usb card...
I think theres issues with the compatability between the kernel modules and the ndiswrapper-common and utils packages they shipped. Also i think those issues exacerabate any bugs with the configuration software...
A nother nifty thing is if I unplug the USB wireless card while its in use by NDISwrapper it hardcrashes the system, blinking lights on the keyboard and every thing
fun stuff, stick with gutsy till they sort it out and release 8.05
Since ndiswrapper and wifi is so integral to many users these days, i never would have shipped it in this state personally.
BTW you have to even install the ndiswrapper utils off of the cd, and the cd isnt a repository by default... DESKTOP IDIOT USER FRIENDLY MY ASS
Just use Newtonian physics to calculate the different lenghts of years and days in advance, and adjust accordingly, you could do stretches of a millennium at once. We know how long a year is now, and we can calculate how long a year will be 1 million years from now. So each year or every few years a new set of "yearly calenders" time scales could easily be released. As for software issues with time, software can use a different standard time measurement system, which can manualy be computed into the official "Newtonian corrected time standard system". This way time is always in sync with the solar and galactic cycles and everyone is happy.
Alternatively can't some way be made to extend the very accurate Mayan calender beyond 2012? or Re-use it such as we have this BC AD stuff with the western time thing.
My background in the military had more of a difference on my "aggression level" then any amount of video games, movies, or books did.
Some books/novels have had a greater affect (or is it effect?) on my view towards violence, pacifism etc... then any video game ever could.
The point is, this. Our society is hung up on controlling what people do, read, see and hear. We have become a nation of intolerant bigots and single minded fanatics. Peoples jobs, entire sections of the government are now devoted to controlling "What you know" and "How that knowledge effects you" this is in direct contention with our FIRST AMENDMENT. Video games are just data. Video games don't kill people, people do.
At least German Govmnt is (i hope) being upfront about it, it looks like they are.
Much better then the ISP's just voluntarily keeping all traffic including content and handing it over to the government no questions asked. But in the US carnivore has been around doing something similar with Email header info's etc... for along time and in and out of the courts etc.
aye, technically yes, do those movies not have a place in your heart? )...
Listen I like the Stanely Kubrick's 2001 movies and blade runners, and logans runs and mad max's and all... but.... sometimes you just want a violent bloody, silly, yet not "dumbed down type of silly (like the LAME spiderman movies)" action killem/shootem/up...
But I take it as a pleasant surprise when the multimedia entertainment conglomerates some how produce something enlightening. Not as a requirement, neither do I wish or expect to be enlightened 24/7 by Hollywood.
I seriously wonder how many other OS's are effected by a similar problem... any aggressive ACPI settings under any OS should kill hard rives...
I wouldn't consider it a "Bug" per see, so much as a configuration problem.
Under M$ this would never be patched... maybe in sp2a... 2 years after the fact... and would be hard coded into the kernel some how... in some freakish way...
At least for the intelligent they've been able to fix it since it was discovered OVER a year ago.
Ive seen windows kill hard drives too and over more trivial issues.... and normal use.
Don't believe the FUD! lol...
Don't forget, some drives/BIOS are not affected it looks like either... just specific ones that are more susceptible to the funky settings.
Laptop hardware should be DESIGNED for such aggressive power management, sounds like they used a drive not suited to being on/off to cut power...
A server stays on 100% of the time, even when its load avg is low specifically to save the hardware.
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GRAND THEFT AUTO....
what the fuck do you expect to be going on?
Ahhhh but the FCC doesn't just say who and what and when and were can use the radio tubes...
they decide what also gets transmitted through them...
So....
Honestly I think its a good idea to allow people to have protected frequencies that aren't usable by others. But they should be able to transmit whatever the fucking hell they want over those god damned frequencies they are allowed to use through whatever selection process it is we come up with as a COUNTRY and the Fucking Communications Cocks don't give a damn about free speech
Corrosion is caused by chloride ions from the salt in sweat.
So do a good work out and wipe your gun down with your sweat...
Metal gets all corroded and no one knows wtf was holding on to it other then a sweaty 40 yr old Italian mafioso.
Except that nowadays we don't donate military hardware to potential terrorists... that includes ball point pens they might draw "plans" with...
And our government respects owning you like chattel
China: Hey will u help us pwn our n000bz so th3y don't get the t1naman n3wz0r?
Microsft: sure! buy our software really cheep and sell it to your students and we'll offer up our NSA and CIA spyware for free!
China: j00 r0xx0r! M$
Microsoft: thanks!
China: w3 su3 y000!
I have a solution...
Lets figure out how to make our vehicles run on blood!
Then the value will go up with the number of people we run over!!!!
VROOM VROOM!
The iPhone won't kill writing games in java...
Java will kill writing games in java...
its not a high performance uber gaming language...
unless you don't like 3D pixelated shinies and bouncies...
Its great for monkey-zombie OCD click fests like SOLITAIRE! U know like bejeweled...
The military wants to ask it the answer to "the question".
42
Your missing the most important step!
???
Don't you get it without the intertubes the RIAA wouldnt have a JOB
They are suing because if they do no SUE....
they wont get payed...
They are all lawayers....
lawyers starve in a perfect world...
LOLOLOLOLOLOLERCOPTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it were not for P2P I would have never bought a single CD or album ever...
Why?
I don't go to concerts.
I don't listen to crappy radio.
I don't get to know the bands through the radio like I do listening to them off of p2p or shoutcast.
I do not go to crappy clubs that play crappy syndicated music.
So that few thousand dollars I spent at all would have never been spent except for the internet allowing me to find obscure bands I would like to support.
I'm sure theres at least 1/2 billion to 1 billion more customers with similar preferences to me on this overcrowded ball of dirt.
What would happen if you lost the revenue of a few thousand dollars a year from half a billion people? You would loose a TON of money.
Its not about money its about control. Its about a few big record labels and media companies that do not want to have to start competing. And its obviously not about the bottom line or those record companies would compete even over the customers like me.
Anyway - ever since the Corporate Christian American Nazi Militant Anti-Terror ban on information trade I have stopped buying multimedia all together.
Tell her that. Just bring a print out of these forums for her. Or send her the link and then discuss the topic after you both read the input and see what you agree and don't agree on.
Be honest.
True, pretty accustomed it would seem now that you point it out.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/
with an emphasis on entertainment
i would like to point out that its not GAMES but shows up under games
More then likely this is some form of test against the slashdot community.
Testing what is what geeks will accept amoung the well established elite ranks of slashdotters.
It might be a test by the Corporate slashdot to see if its readers would like an entertainment section much like cnn.coms entertainment section.
See - > http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/ were u go if u click the big link that says entertaiment on cnn's website
Perhaps one of the major networks is purchasing slashdot.org and want to integrate Paris Hilton like idolatry into geekdom.
Anyway the movie was only minerly entertaining, if it was Steve Ballmer instead of a young myspace kid... it would have been even better...
The fact that its a recent trend on slashdot to call people you disagree with, noobz and myspace kids is why it got posted, to poke the old geeks with sticks so t speak.
Because we are all insensative-clods and you all just got a little bit more sentimental about your old website hangout... aaaawwwww.
Perhaps the best way to fight the government, would in fact be to dig up as much dirty info and collect as much of their internet traffic and correspondence as you can and post it publicly on a server located in the Andes somewhere? Like list their banks, accounts, and balances and email them to Nigeria?
Give them a taste of their own medicine?
See how thy feel like being monitored 24/7...
I mean their politicians and squeaky clean...
They have nothing to hide...
They never went to detention for taking Billy's money on the playground... right? They don't have gay liberal kids do they?
Exactly how legal would it be to data mine our elected officials?
Its true the natural course of action is -
Those who do not want to be monitored will sidestep with technology, always staying a year or two ahead of the government.
Those who do not care will allow themselves to be monitored.
The government will probably then make it ILLEGAL to use your own technology and force you to use "government mandated protocols" and then encroach your right to use encryption, or require "good citizens" to register and license encryption keys from the government.
The other alternative would be for the government to infiltrate and sabotages projects that create alternative communications protocols, however this is pretty hard.
I see in the near future, a required license and government certified software to use the "internet". Microsoft would love this, they already support this method in China.
I just spent a few hours trying to get wifi to work. It worked fine under xubuntu gutsy... Its borked in Hardy... ndiswrapper "seems" to load the driver... it see's the device... the wifi config utilities see it... It connected once, I installed the resticted nvidia drivers, and it never connected again... even after removing and reinstalling the driver usin a 2wire usb card... I think theres issues with the compatability between the kernel modules and the ndiswrapper-common and utils packages they shipped. Also i think those issues exacerabate any bugs with the configuration software... A nother nifty thing is if I unplug the USB wireless card while its in use by NDISwrapper it hardcrashes the system, blinking lights on the keyboard and every thing fun stuff, stick with gutsy till they sort it out and release 8.05 Since ndiswrapper and wifi is so integral to many users these days, i never would have shipped it in this state personally. BTW you have to even install the ndiswrapper utils off of the cd, and the cd isnt a repository by default... DESKTOP IDIOT USER FRIENDLY MY ASS
Haha, I don't have moderation points but i say mod this parent up! they are right on.
Just use Newtonian physics to calculate the different lenghts of years and days in advance, and adjust accordingly, you could do stretches of a millennium at once. We know how long a year is now, and we can calculate how long a year will be 1 million years from now. So each year or every few years a new set of "yearly calenders" time scales could easily be released. As for software issues with time, software can use a different standard time measurement system, which can manualy be computed into the official "Newtonian corrected time standard system". This way time is always in sync with the solar and galactic cycles and everyone is happy.
Alternatively can't some way be made to extend the very accurate Mayan calender beyond 2012? or Re-use it such as we have this BC AD stuff with the western time thing.
My background in the military had more of a difference on my "aggression level" then any amount of video games, movies, or books did.
Some books/novels have had a greater affect (or is it effect?) on my view towards violence, pacifism etc... then any video game ever could.
The point is, this. Our society is hung up on controlling what people do, read, see and hear. We have become a nation of intolerant bigots and single minded fanatics. Peoples jobs, entire sections of the government are now devoted to controlling "What you know" and "How that knowledge effects you" this is in direct contention with our FIRST AMENDMENT. Video games are just data. Video games don't kill people, people do.
Have a nice day.
At least German Govmnt is (i hope) being upfront about it, it looks like they are. Much better then the ISP's just voluntarily keeping all traffic including content and handing it over to the government no questions asked. But in the US carnivore has been around doing something similar with Email header info's etc... for along time and in and out of the courts etc.
Except now he's dead too and anything he had to say is moot.
He's right about society, people, and humans.
His solution was wrong. He lost, we will not win by killing everything that moves.
aye, technically yes, do those movies not have a place in your heart? ) ...
Listen I like the Stanely Kubrick's 2001 movies and blade runners, and logans runs and mad max's and all... but.... sometimes you just want a violent bloody, silly, yet not "dumbed down type of silly (like the LAME spiderman movies)" action killem/shootem/up...
But I take it as a pleasant surprise when the multimedia entertainment conglomerates some how produce something enlightening. Not as a requirement, neither do I wish or expect to be enlightened 24/7 by Hollywood.
slashdot has become gay... yuppy, socialite place to be for retards who graduated from pheonix online university i see
I seriously wonder how many other OS's are effected by a similar problem... any aggressive ACPI settings under any OS should kill hard rives...
... 2 years after the fact... and would be hard coded into the kernel some how... in some freakish way...
I wouldn't consider it a "Bug" per see, so much as a configuration problem.
Under M$ this would never be patched... maybe in sp2a
At least for the intelligent they've been able to fix it since it was discovered OVER a year ago.
Ive seen windows kill hard drives too and over more trivial issues.... and normal use.
Don't believe the FUD! lol...
Don't forget, some drives/BIOS are not affected it looks like either... just specific ones that are more susceptible to the funky settings.
Laptop hardware should be DESIGNED for such aggressive power management, sounds like they used a drive not suited to being on/off to cut power...
A server stays on 100% of the time, even when its load avg is low specifically to save the hardware.